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Fun fact 4 about Greenland

The last written records of the Norse Greenlanders are from a 1408 marriage at Hvalsey Church, which is now the best-preserved Norse ruin.
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The lowest temperature ever recorded in the Northern Hemisphere was near the top of the Greenland ice sheet at −69.6 °C (−93.3 °F).

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Denmark
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Greenland

Denmark

Area
2.17M km²
Location
Denmark
1st largest island in the world

Greenland is an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark and is the largest of the kingdom's three constituent parts by land area, the others being Denmark proper and the Faroe Islands. Citizens of Greenland are citizens of Denmark.

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